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Year 6 Reading Challenge Autumn 2

Mrs Morris

This term’s challenge is related to our science learning! Please pick one of the tasks below:

Reading comprehension

Blind Creation Challenge

You will need to follow the instructions carefully… The outcome will be a model that relates to our circulatory system learning! Lets see how great your reading skills are.

You will need:

3 x Pop bottles (the same size) with caps, labels removed.
4 x Bendy straws
3 Cups of water
Food colouring
Tape
Modeling clay or play dough

Method

You will need 2 bottle caps for this experiment. Keep the third one as a back up. In the first cap create two holes that are the same size. You want the holes to be just big enough for the straws to slide through. In the second cap drill one hole that is straw sized. The second should be smaller. If you create both straw sized (like we did), you can use some modeling clay to make the second hole a little smaller.

In a jug, mix your water and food colouring to create your “red blood”. The exact amount of water is not important.

Take two straws, stretch and bend them to create a 90 degree angle. Slide one straw into the other straw (pinch one to make it smaller so it slides in), then tape up the join. Repeat with the second set of straws.

Place your three bottles on the table. Fill the first two with your water to about 80% full. Leave the third one empty.

On the first bottle place the cap with one straw hole and one small hole. On the middle bottle place the cap with two straw holes. Leave the third bottle without a cap.

Carefully slide the straws through the bottle caps. Place clay or play dough around the straw bases on the middle bottle to make an airtight seal with the bottle cap. You are now ready to put your model to work!

Making your model work

In this simple model the first bottle is the atrium of the heart, the second bottle is the ventricle, and the third bottle represents either the lungs or body. Our fingers function as the valves of the heart.

To make your heart model work, squeeze the middle bottle only. Start by pinching the straw between the atrium and ventricle bottle. Squeeze the middle bottle and watch your “blood” squirt out into the body.

Keeping the middle bottle “squeezed” move your fingers and pinch the straw between the ventricle and body. Now release the middle bottle and watch your blood move from the atrium into the ventricle.

Repeat, repeat, repeat to pump blood from the atrium, into the ventricle then out to the body!

Once your blood in the atrium gets too low, you can take blood from the “bod

8 responses to “Year 6 Reading Challenge Autumn 2”

  1. Azaan H.

    1)Circulatory is something that is going round or in a loop.
    2)Oxygen
    3)Lungs
    4)The 1st one collects oxygen and gets rid of the carbon dioxide. The 2nd one travels around the body.
    5)Waist product is carbon dioxide.
    6)20 Seconds
    7)A blood cell puts all of the oxygen in place.
    8)It is important so that we stay alive. If we do not have a healthy heart we would not be alive. Also without a healthy heart no blood will get around your body.

  2. Mohanned A.

    1. Circulatory means something that is going round and round in a circle or loop.
    2. Nutrients, oxygen and Hormones are circulated with our blood.
    3. When blood goes into the lungs, oxygen is released into the blood.
    4. There are two loops in the circulatory system. The first one goes to and from the heart visiting the lungs to receive oxygen and remove carbon dioxide. The second one travel all around the body in between.
    5. The waste that was removed from the lungs is carbon dioxide.
    6. It takes under 2O seconds for a red blood cell to travel around the whole body.
    7. The blood cells are compared to delivery drivers and waste disposers because they get rid of carbon dioxide and give oxygen to other parts of the body.
    8. The heart is important because it keeps you alive. It also says in the text ‘Without the heart, no blood would get anywhere around your body’

  3. Muhammad B.

    I have completed the challenge.

  4. Moosa K.

    Reading Comprehension
    1. The word circulatory means blood is being pumped around and around in a circle or loop.
    2. Nutrients , Oxygen and Hormones .
    3. The lungs.
    4. The first one goes to and from e heart to the organs pumping the blood.
    5. Carbon Dioxide.
    6. 20 seconds.
    7. Delivery drivers and waste disposers all in one.
    8. The heart is important because it constantly pumps blood across the circulatory system.

  5. Esa M.

    I have done it and will bring it in.

  6. Esa M.

    I have done it.

  7. Yogitha K.

    What does Circulatory mean?
    It means that is going round and around in a loop or a circle.
    What is Circulated around the body with our blood?
    Nutrients
    Oxygen
    Hormones
    All over the above✅
    In which organ does the oxygen go into the blood?
    It is Lungs
    Why is there two loops in the circulatory system?What does each one do?
    The first one get rid of all the Carbon Dioxide and the second one goes around the body.
    What waist products are removed from the lungs?
    All of the Carbon Dioxide.
    How long does it take for one red blood cell to travel all around the body?
    20seconds.
    What are the blood cells compared to?
    The delivery truck.
    What are the blood cells compared to?
    They are delivery drivers and waste disposers all in one.
    Why is the heart so important? Use evidence from the text.
    Without the heart, no blood would get anywhere around your body and you won’t be able to live.The heart can pump 2,000 gallons of blood everyday.
    THE END.

  8. Zainab A.

    1.What is circulatory?
    Circulatory is something that is going round and round in a circle or loop.
    2.What is circulated around the body with our blood? Tick one
    Nutrients ❌
    Oxygen ✅
    Hormones ❌
    All over the above❌
    3.In which organ does the oxygen go into the blood?
    The organ of the oxygen goes into the lungs
    4.Why is there two loops in the circulatory system?What does each one do? The fist one goes to and from the heart visiting the lungs to collect oxygen and gets rid of the carbon dioxide.The other loop is much larger and goes to and from the heart but travels all around the bodies.
    5.What waist products are removed from the lungs
    The waist product that are removed from the lungs is Carbon dioxide.
    6.How long does it take for one red blood cell to travel all around the body.
    20 seconds ✅
    20 minutes ❌
    24 hours ❌
    24 minutes ❌
    7.What are the blood cells compared to?
    A blood cell is compared to a delivery driver that drops of the oxygen to where it needs to be.
    8.Why is the heart so important? Use evidence from the text.
    It is important so we stay alive .if we do not have a heart we would not be alive.also without a heart no blood will get any where around your body.

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